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ARIA State Variants

SHOULD

SHOULD: Use aria-* variants (aria-selected:, aria-expanded:) to tie styles to ARIA state

Use aria-* variants for accessible interactive states

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Why it matters

Using aria-* variants ensures your visual styles match the accessibility state. This prevents mismatches where something looks selected but isn't announced as selected.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.